While this video is as muddy as shit—after all, nobody had an iPhone yet—it’s still a fascinating document of the seminal DC hardcore band gigging in the NYC’s ultimate punk rock venue. And it sounds better than it looks, anyway.

As he introduces a cover of Wire’s “12XU,” Ian MacKaye says something about the carburetor making them three hours late. The other bands on the bill were The Mob and Urban Waste, NYC bands both—notice that the flier advertises Minor Threat as being “FROM DC.” According to Steven Blush’s American Hardcore: A Tribal History, this gig was the last one Urban Waste would ever play. A year later, Minor Threat too would be no more.

Conceptual artist/writer Dan Graham made a documentary about Minor Threat and their fans in 1983. In the book Dan Graham: Rock My Religion,  cultural theorist Kodwo Eshun references a video of this show taken by Graham; this is presumably that video.

Setlist:
Steppin’ Stone (Monkees cover)
Filler
Straight Edge
Betray
Small Man, Big Mouth
Seeing Red
Minor Threat
Guilty of Being White
12XU (Wire cover)
Screaming At a Wall
It Follows
Out of Step (With the World)
I Don’t Wanna Hear It
Little Friend
No Reason
Bottled Violence
Think Again
In My Eyes
 

Previously on Dangerous Minds:
Minor Threat t-shirts sold at Urban Outfitters now
Ice cream-eating motherf*cker: Minor Threat Ice Cream Truck